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Costa Rica court convicts U.S. investor of fraud

The Tico Times - February 19, 2016

The long, strange ordeal that Cyrus Sepehr refers to as "something out of a movie" took a turn for the worse Thursday when a San José court convicted him on five counts of fraud in a failed real estate deal.

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Costa Rica prosecutors seek 20 years in fraud case against US investor Cyrus Sepehr

The Tico Times - February 13, 2016

The trial of U.S. real estate investor Cyrus Sepehr, who is in preventive prison in Costa Rica with crippling post-polio syndrome, continued for a second straight week. On Friday, prosecutors asked judges that Sepehr be given 20 years in prison.